Comic Book Resources carries news of a new Tales of the Vampires one shot whilst Buffyfest has news of three (yes, three) new Angelverse series: one indefinite length Spike series, courtesy of Brian Lynch (who so gets Spike's voice and character so YAY!), a two-part Dru story (YAY!) courtesy of Brain Lynch and ..... wait for it ..... Juliet Landau (YAY!, YAY! and a final YAY!) and a Gunn one-shot, also couryesy of Brian Lynch.

According to Lynch's blog, he's just put the finishing touches to #17 (and final issue). I've enjoyed the series so far (and the Spike: ATF spinoff arc too). I hope Lynch does more AtS stories - judging by the poll on his site, it may well be more in the vein of Shadow Puppets or Asylum. I enjoyed both of those stories to, largely because Lynch can really nail Spike's voice so well but the stories were damn good fun too.

Great news from Comic Book Resources - two, yes, you read right, TWO - new Angel series will be coming from IDW, once ATF is done.

The first series will be Angel: Aftermath (coming in 2009) "which will further continue Angel's struggles". The second series is Angel: Blood and Trenches (also coming in 2009) "about Angel's exploits during World War I". Despite what the article says, Lynch has confirmed that he won't be writing it. That's a shame because I have enjoyed ATF so far. No word about who is writing or drawing it yet, though.

Over at RyallTime, there are two sketches by none other than John Romita Senior (and even I know, in my state of comic book ignorance, that he's a *big name*). He's doing variant covers for AtS: ATF #11 and Spike: ATF #3 and I assume these are not the covers themselves